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Show ITho Consolidated Light & Railway company has reduced the faro to Murray Mur-ray to ton cents, twlco what It ought ! to bo, but for small favors lot's bo thankful. Instead of having to go down Into ono's pocket threo times on tho trip for a nlckol, wo will in futures fu-tures only have to dig up twlco. It Is a good thing, but would bo bettor If It was only flvo conts. In other cities tho traction companies carry a man much farther than from hero to Mur-i Mur-i ray for a nickel. Aftor nil said against tho Initiative ' I and referendum and tho Imperial man- f I dnto, there aro somo good polnfs In bothj' especially tho latter. Just think ' , how nice it would bo to recall a coun- oilman who votes for something tho taxpayers do not want. What a rough time several Salt Lako City fathers would have about this season of the year. It Is rumored with apparently gooa reason that a $2,000,000 Iron works Is to bo located at Green Itlver, Utah, by tho Colorado Iron & Fuel company. com-pany. This concern has had an eye on this state for somo tlmo. Now listen to tho shrieks of "hierarchy" from tho Tribune. Gcorgo Austin, agricultural export for tho Utah Sugar company, says that beets aro looking fxcoodlngly well this spring, and tho prospects for a good crop were never bettor. Why, oh why, does not Frank Cannon come back and nssert that Joseph F. is responsible re-sponsible for all this? Davo Burley has a town named after him up in Idaho. Now If David would only marry and have a boy named after him wo feel that llfo would tako on a real rosy hue. John W. Ycrkes, United State3 commissioner com-missioner of Internal Revenue, camo into town Monday on business. Scarcely -had ho landed oro tho evening even-ing Imitation, published on West Templo, started his boom for tho vice-presidency, In 1908 to succeed Fairbanks. Truly this is a great place. Drop in and got a ride to Portland Port-land or a boom for Vice-president. The czar must bo proud of tho conditions con-ditions which prevail In tho ancient city of Warsaw. Killing women and children seems to bo tho sport of Russian troops. Well, thoy aro moro easily slaughtered than the recalcitrant recalci-trant Japs, and tho Russian soldiers must havo somo amusement. A dispatch dis-patch says tho troops wore "uncontrollable." "uncon-trollable." Better send a fow of those regiments to Manchuria. A fow hours In front of Oyama's battle formation and they will stand hitched. Tho Herald yesterday had an editorial edi-torial on tho tariff. Wo infer from this that tho campaign has opened or Is about to open. Tho calling down which Senator Clark administered to ox-Senator Kearns and tho Tribune gang, was tho result of representations made by a number of leading business men of this city to Senator Clark. Tho merchants represented to Clark that tho knocking of tho Tribune was hurting hurt-ing tho town, Injuring business nnd most harmful in every way. Tho Montana senator who has also largo interests in Utah agreed with tho business men entirely and was very emphatic in his talk to tho triumvirate. trium-virate. Ex-Senator Cannon and Senator Dubois havo been holding consultations consulta-tions in Philadelphia with a viow of devising moans for tho protection of tho purity of tho American homo. Tho most notorious homo destroyer and tho most immoral man in seventeen seven-teen states is ex-Senator Cannon. Ho is a fine ohampion of tho purity of tho homo ! |